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I have been hanging around Daily Kos since the time of the Obamas. I have had writers block for about that long. There have been many things that I have wanted to write about, but I couldn’t put the words together in a way that satisfied me, or I was...
by inthefuturewewill
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on Sat May 04, 2024 at 11:32 PM PDT
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The video linked is courtesy of Brian Tyler Cohen who as many of you may know is doing a huge amount of amazing work. There is a YouTube video that is linked below, but the gist of it is a man named Bob thanked President Biden for lowering the cost of...
by Dem
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on Fri Apr 19, 2024 at 10:21 AM PDT
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I loaded Make America Kittens again a couple of months ago, because I am one of the chorus saying “We KNOW what Orange Monstrosity looks like! We don’t need to see 50 gazillions of pics of him ...
by ItIsMe
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on Mon Apr 15, 2024 at 08:00 AM PDT
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I’ve watched local headlines regarding this come and go over the last few months, during which time 2 feet of snow has fallen, thousands of car accidents have occurred due to snow and ice, we ourselves have been snowed in for a solid week in a nice,...
by rflctammt
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on Wed Feb 14, 2024 at 09:40 AM PST
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A sweet female dog was going to be euthanized at a kill shelter today due to a badly broken leg in need of surgery. The shelter estimated she’s about two-years-old. My wife saw a local Nashville post about a sweet stray who was hit by a car on a rainy...
by DannyB
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on Mon Jan 22, 2024 at 05:56 PM PST
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Buddhism is selflessness, thus unselfishness, thus compassion for all sentient beings, thus universal kindness, thus a direct attack on all of the suffering in the world. The world doesn’t get all ...
by Mokurai
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on Sun Nov 19, 2023 at 09:00 AM PST
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President Biden is a man of enormous empathy borne from his personal experience of terrible anguish and unimaginable loss. We saw it with the boy who stuttered. We saw it in his compassion to those in mourning and suffering from COVID. He is the...
by Dem
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on Fri Oct 20, 2023 at 09:25 AM PDT
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The way for many to show their rebellious streak as a child is to knock on a door or ring a doorbell and then run away. Yes, it probably results in some being disturbed from their dinner or whathaveyou, but all- in- all it’s harmless. The classic...
by Tevye
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on Sun Oct 01, 2023 at 03:39 PM PDT
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I was raised on a small farm in rural Michigan and of course we had animals. Cows, pigs, chickens before the price fell out of the market, and of course dogs and barn cats. They were always there and just part of the environment. Farmers don’t think of...
by McCrowlerr
102 comments
on Sun Oct 01, 2023 at 08:11 AM PDT
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All Set To Retire, Then The Moment That Thrust Dianne Back Into Service And A Decade Of Cold Sweats. She and her husband Bertram were relieved about her impending early retirement from politics, and excited of what the future was going to bring. Bertram was a neurologist and doing very well thank you very much, and Dianne was digging deep on what the...
by Tevye
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on Fri Sep 29, 2023 at 07:39 AM PDT
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The abused stray didn’t have a name when he was first brought into the Antrim County Animal Shelter in Bellaire, Michigan. Someone had shot him with a pellet or BB gun, which the shelter staff could feel under his bottom lip. He also displayed other...
by Tevye
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on Sun Sep 24, 2023 at 03:28 PM PDT
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14-year-old Connor Halsa of Moorhead, Minnesota was fishing with his family on Lake of the Woods, a massive lake straddling both sides of the US/ Canadian border. “We were doing a walleye drift, so we stopped the boat, put some spinners on, and just...
by Tevye
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on Sun Sep 17, 2023 at 03:22 PM PDT
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I was reading a truly excellent diary and I felt like I wanted to add onto that: . Lindsey Graham knows that what he has been saying is false. When he started making false allegations and Hunter and Joe Biden and President Biden said something to him...
by Dem
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on Sun Sep 10, 2023 at 11:03 AM PDT
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Hi friends. I am now in Somerset, PA. I will be attending the services tomorrow, a dozen or so miles away at the Flight 93 National Memorial, for the third year in a row. Being in the presence of and offering my condolences to the families and friends...
by Tevye
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on Sun Sep 10, 2023 at 02:14 PM PDT
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I was on my Substack today and someone reached out to me about my last post on ONE ANGRY BLACK CHICK with so much love and support I cried. It was then that I recognized that I hadn’t had one panic attack since I began writing here and elsewhere and to...
by sepiasiren
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on Wed Aug 30, 2023 at 02:53 PM PDT
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We know about the monk who asked whether dogs have Buddha Nature. Such a question arose at Shasta Abbey, about Richard Nixon. We offered him merit every day, but some objected. The Abbess asked, “Who needs it more?” and that was that. And so it is...
by Mokurai
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on Sat Aug 26, 2023 at 09:22 AM PDT
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Joe Schilling was known by many names in his home of West Maui. He was known by locals as Maui Joe, and Uncle Joe. He had many hobbies, and accumulated a large collection of bullet shells that he searched for on the beaches and in the forests. And...
by Tevye
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on Sat Aug 19, 2023 at 03:02 PM PDT
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It started when a concerned neighbor saw a group of very young puppies thought to be from the same litter near a storm drain in the Spring Branch section of Houston. The area has become known as the area for ‘puppy dumping’, which is as odious as the...
by Tevye
85 comments
on Sun Aug 13, 2023 at 03:32 PM PDT
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Georgia Officer Was Called To Remove A Black Child Looking For Lawn Work. He Had A Much Better Idea. In his seventh year as a police officer with the City of Hapeville Police Department, Officer Eric Colleran knows that many investigations are far different in reality than from the many calls that are reporting suspicious activities. And we as a...
by Tevye
287 comments
on Sun Aug 06, 2023 at 03:01 PM PDT
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On July 7th, 17-year-old Emily Dickerson and her school choir of 200 from Council Bluffs, Iowa, were just nearing the end of a week-long tour of San Antonio, Texas. They had just finished performing at Texas Six Flags, and were going to finish the day...
by Tevye
36 comments
on Sun Jul 30, 2023 at 04:08 PM PDT
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